Life drawing at the Metro Toronto Zoo

Once in awhile Leigh and I get the urge to head to the zoo and do some life drawing and look at some animals. Life drawing at the zoo is fun but can be a little tough sometimes. Animals in the zoo are not the most cooperative models to draw from. They're either constantly on the move or asleep or hiding behind something so you can't see them. Here's my favourites from this last session.

Chainsaw Mummy!

the world needs more mummies, less zombies.

Happy Halloween from Nahum Gardner's farm

Happy Friday the 13th!

 

Quick sketch of Jason "Mama's Boy" Voorhees. Done while eating lunch. And since it is Friday the 13th what better excuse to draw him.

BRRRRROOOOCKK LESNAR!

Dunno why, but I felt like drawing Brock Lesnar. Don't judge me.

Major Tom Kerwin

Something happened to Major Tom Kerwin while he was in space. Something unpleasant

They move around in the dark ...

I don't know what these things are. They just showed up while I was on the subway this morning.

Some kinda warlock or something?

He's got a lot on his mind. I think my favorite thing about this guy is the stitches going around the sides of his head.

Closet Monsters

I was recently asked to be part of Strange Kids Club and Scabfarm's weird virtual trading card project Closet Monsters. Since I've always been a fan of monsters and weird trading cards from the 80s I could not resist! Here's my first entry into the mayhem. Be sure to swing by the site to see more from other crazy artists in the weird monster scene. The post a new image one a week.

Creepy guys....

Not sure what he wants but I really wish he'd stop following me around.

Hey look! its Dayglow Necros the mortal enemy of Calabrese!

Sneak Peek of some new Monstars showing up on the Monstar's blog

Here's a little peek at the next four monstars showing up on the Monstar's blog. Any guesses as to where these guys and girl are from? The one in the upper right is already on that blog. The other three will be up over the next three weeks.

That guy from the puzzlebox, Pinhead

A group of my friends (My Ghoul Friday, Leigh Young and Mike Faille) have been slowly working our way through the Hellraiser movies. The strange thing is none of us think the movies are particularly good, but they're fun to watch with friends who share that sentiment. We've only made it through the first three so far. One of the things we've notice from the first two flicks is that Pinhead is not particularly good at his job. In the first movie Frank Cotton some how escapes the clutches of Pinhead and his Cenobite gang. When they encounter Frank's niece, Kristy, she convinces them to leave her alone because she can lead them to Frank. In the second movie they encounter Kristy in hell, she convinces Pinhead to leave her alone once again because she opened the puzzle box "accidentally." The creatively named female Cenobite, Female Cenobite, points out to Pin that it seems weird they keep "accidentally" running into Kristy and maybe they should tear her soul apart like they're supposed to. Tearing souls apart when people open the puzzle box is, after all, the only thing the Cenobites are supposed to do. Pinhead tells her "No we only do that to people who open the puzzle box on purpose."
Female counters with "don't you think its weird that in two movies we meet up with this Kristy person twice?" Pinhead just kinda shrugs and says "Hey it's not my problem, she says she didn't know what would happen if she solved the box. Let's let her off with a warning this time."
AND THEY DO!?
In the third movie Pinhead needs a certain number of victims in order to free himself from some goofy looking sculpture, long goofy story which I'm not going to relate at this time. He gets a guy to provide him with almost the number he needs.
Pinhead is one victim away from freedom but can't figure out that if he just kills the guy providing his victims he's free to go about his Hellraising ways.
It ends up the last victim the guy was going to bring to Pinhead kills that guy. Fortunately for Pinhead the last almost victim is dumb enough he can convince her to give him the dead victim provider thus freeing himself.

Anyway if you are a fan of the Hellraiser movies, could you please explain to me why they are so well loved? Is part four so amazing that they really needed to make four more after that one? Is all the love for Hellraiser based on the fact that the Cenobites in the first two flicks look kind of cool?

I'm sure some other horror franchises are more deserving of the love Hellraiser receives. Maybe we'll understand once we've made it to the end of the series.
Something tells me we won't.

Suicide Squad vs. The Fly

There's this guy who collects original art based on the old DC comic characters The Suicide Squad, he commissioned me to create this piece of the squad facing off against the fly. The original piece is 11" x 17" on bristol board. I had a lot of fun doing this, all brush, real ink, no digital what so ever. You can check out other pieces in the  guy's collection here: Will Cox's Suicide Squad Gallery 

If you're interested in commissioning any art from me drop me an e-mail, just hit the Contact button on my website: somethingagogo.com

Jumping out a window.

King Hat?!

 

Just drew this weird guy, no real reason behind it. I was listening to the Paul F. Tompkins'  Pod F. Tompkast. While drawing this. The king hat thing is from his "Laboring Under Delusions" DVD. I find him hilarious. I just discovered his comedy last year thanks to Leigh Young introducing me to the Thrilling Adventure Hour. 

This picture has nothing to do with any of that other stuff.

Art Sale! Art Sale! Commissions for November!

Hi Guys and Gals,
I had a bunch of fun doing those Monsters all through October so I figured it might be fun to do some more of that style art. Therefore for the foreseeable future I'll be offering some quick commissions.

What am I charging for these commissions?
 • $25 (payable through Paypal) for a high resolution .jpg (or if you want .tif) emailed to you. Perfect for printing on your own! This is the quickest way to get the art to you!
 • If you want the actual physical piece of art it'll cost $50 to cover shipping. Not sure how long it will take to get to you, it'll be shipped flat through Canada Post.
 • $5 per additional character.

What kind of art am I doing?
 • Single character images with minimal background also known as a big blob. Similar to the monsters   I'd been doing through out October.

 • The physical image will be Black ink and one other color ink on smooth 150 lb bristol board 9"x 12"
 • If you have something more complex in mind we can discuss.
 • Fan art and original characters are fine, not really sure what else you'd be commissioning me to do otherwise.
 • Art is intended for private collections.

If you're interested send me an e-mail at abarr at somethingagogo.com.

Halloween Fiend: 28

E-Bike Spotters guide: Didn't make the cut.

If you happen to pick up the National Post this weekend there's an article about the different types of people you'll see riding e-scooters. Richard Johnson, Mike Faille and I designed a bunch of different characters for the graphic unfortunately not every character made the final image. Below find my favorites of the guys I drew who didn't end up in the final:

It happens sometimes. They were fun to draw and it was a nice change of pace from the usual stuff we do.

I really wish Lord Humongous ended up in the paper, would have been funny.

Halloween Fiends: 25, It's not human and it has an axe!

Six more days 'til halloween!

Halloween Fiends: 23